The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-09-23
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.

Frank Safa, Gn italian, sho- ana fatally
wounded Tony Rich FOR stealing roasting
ears from Sata's field, near New Castle.
The Authorities are after Safl.
An ordinary elephant produces 100
pounds Ot ivory, worth ESQ England con-
sumes $50 tons COT which Sheffield one
third, iOE which It Is necessary 20 Kill IL. OO9
elephants ye1giy.
There are nOw IN New England 19l 600
people who can neither read nor write. ID
the state o. Perusy yIVania sd coo, and ~
the State OF New la.A -ll 900, Wai.e IN the
United States there are nearly C'5 600 WHO
can neither read nor WI.te.
An apple tree on tile farm Of Captain
= J. Williamson, ia Pleasant County. Va
witch has borne fruit FOR q number of years,
has never been known 20 brosssm This
year, the tree is again full OF fine large aTT3e
the stTangest thing about wLicl is That the
fruit hss neither core nor seed.
a young EuC'slluen named a. ".
Whiteh0use. while ou- hunting antelope last
Saturday Ggar Howard WiudaaUrs Twin
Mountain ranch, Wyoming Ter, shot ana
Instantly killed his cnum and companion
George II. GoEann, thinziny g noise lie
heard il the brush was made by bear in
stead o: by Gordon.
Mrs. John Garrison, 81 Douglas county,
No, has three daughters, the statistics of
whom ere as follows. Arb, years old, $50
pounds. LYDIA SopATDnie, Il years osi, 20
Melinda, L years old, 20-. They were
raised il Douglas county Their height is
not above TIE ordinary. TIE mother weighs
40 pounds and the father Is said 20 be g
small-sized man.
The Abbeyiile CGa.l Times says a rat-
tlesnake was killed d few days ago II at was
seven feet three inches long without the
head and Tattles. It would have measured
fully eight feet With its head snd TaUtles.
II had twenty-five Tatt!es and "A button It
was eleven inches in circumference, its skin
held three PecEs Of wheat bran, and its
fangs were an inch long.
"A young man al Western, Neb, had A
$40 bill which be put into his pocketbook
Being unused % carrying money in that
receptacle lie forgot where be had placed
the bill, and not being able 70 find il con
cluded he had been robbed. He then sold
the pOcketbOnk FOR 50 cents and Jumped The
town. The purchaser found the $40 bill all
safe inside after the young man had de-
parted.
"A granite shaft recently quarIied in
Ninalhaven, Maine, is the largest piece of
stone ever quaTTled on earth. and when
erected Will De the largest and heaviest
single piece Of stone now standing OF that
ever stood. as far rs there is any record.
1t considerably exceeds in length any of the
Egyptian oblisks. The shaft is lI5 feet
long. 10 feet square at the base, and weig h
$50 tons.
-Hauas IS ahead in railroad building
this year with l.I84 miles OF new track
Texas comes nexL with 6G5 miles, Nebraska
third with 536, Dakota fourth with 49i
Indian Territory fifth with 43a, and Col
Orado sixth with IO5 and Montana seventh
with 273 miles. These seven States and
Territories have buiIt an aggre gate Of i. coo
miles, OF nearly lwo-thiTds Of al that has
been built -Ais year il The entire country.
A few days ago q negro COOK n = hotel
at OuTay, Col, named Joe Dixon, shot a
waitress, in-ictiug fatal wounds. A mob
weGs 10 the jail ior TIE purpose Of ITuchiug
him. They captured the guard, but fai.ed
to gain an entrance. They then saturated
all parts Of the building with Goa. oil and
set EEe 10 u. TIE G1e department came out,
and il the attempt TO extiuguish the flames
drowned The negro, whose body was roasted
il the burning building.
There is q bel ut rock salt on the 70 ok
Desert !u California, supposed 60 have been
deposited by the g-adual evaporation or the
Inland sea that once rolled over thatTast
depression. The Sout.eTu Pacific Railroad,
in lying q track 10 the salt bed, was obliged
10 build Jhe ted OF the road on blocks OF
the beautiful rock crystals. This Is the
only railroad N the world that is h1nasted
with salt. The saline deposit is said 20 be
fifty miles .CaE, and tie supply is mex
haustlJle.
"A dispatch from Eeohle-, Michigan,
says tie forest fires in that vicinity are
again raging rs badly as ever, and, ii rain
does not soon come, there will not be
standing tree left. The road leading east
from koeh!er 3 5,ocaccd by falling timber,
piled a: some points 10 q Leigh: OF fifteen
feet. A. I!Eht thC sky is Illuminated as far
as the eye can sec, while the smoke is sufEo-
eating, and the crash Of falling timber is
deafeninE- Heavy fires axe also reported
from the Black Lake region.
There Is iu Monmouth county, y. ia
COW whose record as a broader Is so marve-
lOus that II is almost Incredible. She is q re-
suit o. cross between the Jersey ana Ayr
shire breeds, and Is now seven years Old.
At her first calviEG she produced three
calves, at her second calvinG three calves,
at her third calying three calves, at her
fourth two and at her fifth four caIyes-in
all, fifteen perfectly formed calves in five
years, at FIVE calvIngs and each year she
was bred to g bull different from the one
preceding.
The fifteen great American inventions
of worldwide adoption are: O. The cot
tOD-gin, % the planning machine, 60 the
grass mower and reaper, % the rotary
printing press, % the navigation by steam,
Co the hOt-air engine, "a the sewing ma
chine, (S) the india-rubber Industry, 90
the machine manufacture of horse-shoes.
10) the saDd-b!ast for carving, OD the
gaug lathe, (l2) the rain elevator, (l3) arti-
hciai ice-making on large scale, (14) the
electric magnet and Its pra ctiealapplication,
Q5) the telephone.
Some time in June last man repre-
senting himself as Henry Puris, wholesale
grocer Of Chicago, began taking baths at the
Rammelsburg Hot Springs, Arkansas
About Eve weeks ap0 Katie / Edwards q